Word: item
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your [May 25] articles about the Church-ill-Attlee attacks on the U.S. were very interesting. Although as an American I was greatly nattered that another nation should dominate its parliamentary podium with debates on our Constitution, a far more intrinsic item kept stealing in between the lines: the memory of a man with an umbrella returning from Munich...
With reference to the June 1 item on the death of Andrew Jackson IV, great-grandson of President Andrew Jackson: Andrew Jackson "IV" was my mess sergeant in World War I, and I seem to remember that he explained his name to me as some adoption, saying that he was not a lineal descendant of the seventh President...
...hand and used as crude axes or hammers, have been found elsewhere in Africa, but they are always accompanied by other kinds of stone implements. Arambourg concluded that the stones he found were made by an extremely primitive "humanoid" whose dim wits had discovered only this one item of stone-working technology...
...ruby glow of its colors, the economy of its drawing, and the sorrowing intensity of its expression make the little medallion (reproduced at close to full size) a priceless masterpiece. It had an honored place last week in one of the summer's most important exhibitions: a 63-item survey of French stained glass up through the 16th century, at Paris' Museum of Decorative Arts...
Buried on an inside page, the Chicago Daily News three months ago ran a short, shocking story. "Rats chewed to death a nine-months-old girl," said the 90-word item, "as she lay in her crib in her West Side home [last night]." Few readers felt the impact of the story more than the News's Managing Editor Everett Norlander. Months before, he had planned a series on Chicago's 23 square miles of crawling, crumbling slums, abandoned the idea because he thought it was too big a job. "But I couldn't get that...